Selected: CO. KILKENNY, CASTLECOMER HOUSE
Name: | JOHNSTON, JOHN [1] |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, CASTLECOMER HOUSE |
Date: | 1800ca |
Nature: | 'Lady Ormonde has in a spirited manner completed and fixed her residence in a new and hansome mansion, on the site of that destroyed in the late rebellion: Johnson was the architect'. |
Refs: | William Tighe, Statistical Observations relative to the County of Kilkenny made in the years 1800 and 1801 (1802), 588 (identified as John Johnston by Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 64, but why not Richard Johnston?) |
Name: | COBDEN, THOMAS ALFRED |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, CASTLECOMER HOUSE |
Date: | 1825 |
Nature: | TC paid about £2 for work on 'Lady Ormonde's house' (presumably Castlecomer House). |
Refs: |
Prior-Wandesforde Papers in collection of Kilkenny Archives Ltd, St Keiran's Colleghe, Kilkenny, File 130 (information from John Kirwan, May 2011). |
Name: | BECKETT, GEORGE FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, CASTLECOMER HOUSE |
Date: | 1912-13 |
Nature: | Reconstruction; new entrance and gate lodge nearing completion, for R.H. Prior-Wandesford, DL. Contractor: James Mulhall, Castlecomer. Cost 'some £1,600'. |
Refs: | IAA, PKS 0951, B21/80, A09 (Jul 1912); IB 54, 6 Jan 1912, 17 |